# Accident 19790131001929A: Piper PA23250, Springfield, MO, January 31, 1979

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: January 31, 1979, 19:30 local time
- Place: Springfield, MO
- Airport: Municipal
- Damage: Substantial damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff Ground Roll
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 37.2153° N, 93.2982° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Springfield, MO, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=37.2153&lon=-93.2982&mi=10
- Aircraft: N62482, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N62482-2014-11-12) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Piper PA-23-250 (registry code 7102308, https://openairdocs.org/model/piper-pa-23-250) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming TI0-540 series (registry code 41533, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-ti0-540-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA23250
- People aboard: 5
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,950 total, 800 in this make and model, 205 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790131001929A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

PILOT LOST DIRECTIONAL CONTROL ON NIGHT TAKEOFF. ICY RUNWAY. SNOW COVERED SOME OF RUNWAY LIGHTS.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

## Other reports on N62482 (2)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 19831211060459I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19831211060459I), Dec 11, 1983: Piper PA23250 (N62482), Loiza, Puerto Rico, Minor damage. Left main gear collapsed on rollout. Landed on a crop dusting strip. Marijuana found. Confiscated by us customs.
- [Incident 19790926049649I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/19790926049649I), Sep 26, 1979: Piper PA23 (N62482), Little Rock, AR. Engine started to smoke during the landing roll. Pilot shut it down. A cylinder had cracked.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.